Ribcage

As a Creative Commons record label, we believe in free and open source software and processes. We therefore use free and open source software as much as we are able as well as actively contributing back to the community.

Ribcage is our homegrown record label management tool, that operates as a plugin for WordPress. It allows us to manage our artists, their releases and the downloads these entail. Everything you see on this site is run using Ribcage.

We are currently re-writing the code completely for a version 2.0 which we will release under the GPL. We are intending to bootstrap this in a rapid development way and have created WordPress Abstract, a series of object-orientated utility libraries to make rapid development easier (for example the creation of custom post types). We envision this to be released in June 2012. We welcome contributions to development through Github.

The current version, which is not fully ready for production use outside of our own site (though some do) can be downloaded from our Github repository, which is also the best place to see ongoing development.

Anyone who can install WordPress and the Ribcage WordPress plugin can pretty much make their own record label that runs along similar lines to Records On Ribs. We hope this will democratise music production and distribution to a previously unprecedented extent.